* A potential new [http://patch-tag.com/r/TomMD/network/ network] library got started. Several aspects of design were discussed.

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* Reworking of [http://patch-tag.com/r/wchogg/crypto Crypto] has started, which involves replacing all [Octet] based digests and ciphers with ByteString equivalents in addition to normalizing the APIs.

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* A [http://patch-tag.com/r/kwallmar/hunit_gui/home GUI for HUnit]. It's currently feature-low, but functional. It also successfully runs its own tests.

I - Echo Nolan - have been working on a BitTorrent client library. It uses fun things like iteratees and STM. If anyone is interested in hearing about/working on it, I'm more than happy to give the guided tour.

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4 Crypto 5.0 notes

See the patch-tag.com crypto repository files Data/Digest.hs and Data/Cipher.hs for proposed Digest and Cipher typeclasses.

This would allow digests to be called with a simple "hash" function so long as they have an instance: